Podcasts by Rock N Roll Archaeology
An episodic overview of the history of Rock Music. Think of it as a college level Rock N Roll 101 course...or if you prefer, a multi-part audio documentary. We take in the music, culture and technology of the second half of the 20th Century to prove how significant and how much impact this art movement had to the times, while still resonating today. It’s carefully researched, fully scripted and highly produced...a little bit academic in tone, because we do our homework. But we throw in a lot of fun too: music, storytelling, commentary and quotes, lots of sound design. The series is presented in chronological order, and we take our time making these, really trying to get the history right. Rock N Roll Archaeology is the world's first HD Podcast and a proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.
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Shorts: Disco Demolition! from 2023-06-07T19:05
RNRA Shorts: Disco Demolition! Take us back to the Distant Days of Disco, Summer of 1979. Steve Dahl, a brash young DJ at WLUP- FM (“Chicago’s Best Rock!”), has declared war on Disco. On July 12,...
ListenEpisode 21: Guitarmageddon from 2021-07-28T22:57
The fuse was lit in 1966. Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Keith Moon came together to record a proto-metal classic. After the session an offhand quip from Keith Moon sticks with Jimmy P...
ListenEpisode 20: Ohio from 2021-01-15T00:53
Rock N Roll as the First Draft Of History We begin in the midwest college town of Kent, Ohio, in the late spring of 1970. We’ll meet three future rockers--students at Kent State University, barely ...
ListenEpisode 19: 1969 Part II from 2020-07-08T07:00
This episode is dedicated with love to the memory of our dear friend Dennis Gordon. Dennis was the big booming voice on our show “bumpers” that would begin and end each chapter of Rock N Roll Archa...
ListenEpisode 18: 1969 Part I from 2019-11-18T19:58
We’re putting down a marker with this episode, and the follow-up: the highest highs and the lowest lows of the entire Rock Era occurred in 1969. It’s a year so big, we had to cut it in two, in orde...
ListenEpisode 17: Bookends from 2019-04-15T16:07
Chapter 17 of Rock N Roll Archaeology is bookended by a couple of Simon&Garfunkel albums: “Bookends” from the spring of 1968; and “Bridge Over Troubled Water” from January of 1970. Our story takes...
ListenEpisode 16: East of Eden from 2018-10-25T18:37
We start our tale of Paradise Lost in Buena Vista Park, San Francisco, in the fall of 1967. Hippie, the Devoted Son of Mass Media, is dead, and the San Francisco Diggers are conducting the funeral....
ListenEpisode 15: Slouching Towards Bethlehem from 2018-03-06T20:55
An impressionistic look at the interplay of Rock N Roll and Culture in Los Angeles during the latter half of the 1960s. There are familiar elements: storytelling, critical discussion and commentary...
ListenEpisode 14: I'd Love to Turn You On from 2017-07-07T20:21
We open in Manila, in the Republic of the Philippines, July 3rd, 1966. The second stop of the Far East leg of the Beatles’ 1966 tour starts out weird and ominous, and gets worse fromthere. By the t...
ListenEpisode 13: Hard to Handle from 2017-04-25T12:30
We open at Waldo Point Marina in Sausalito, California, just north of San Francisco. Otis Redding takes a break from the road on Bill Graham’s houseboat, and comes up with a signature song.Learn m...
ListenEpisode 12: Machine Gun from 2017-01-07T00:28
Jimi Hendrix's astonishing, supernatural talent was forged in poverty and neglect as he grew up in Seattle. We talk about that, and about the night Elvis came to town. After a short stint in the Ar...
ListenEpisode 11: I Can't Explain from 2016-10-11T17:24
We start by taking a clear-eyed look at the infamous seaside “Riots” in the resort town of Clacton, United Kingdom and several other towns in the summer of 1964. The British press were WAY over the...
ListenEpisode 10: Roll Away The Stones from 2016-08-12T01:09
Episode Ten opens up with Christian narrating at the site of the Bricklayer’s Arms Public House, in Soho, West London, where Brian Jones met with two younger men, school chums, Mick Jagger and Keit...
ListenEpisode 9: The Medium, The Message, The Music from 2016-05-05T23:18
Welcome back Diggers to Episode Nine: The Medium, The Message, The Music. This show will contain familiar elements — storytelling, commentary, and musicology — but it is also a bit of a departure. ...
ListenEpisode 8: Meet The Beatles Part 2 from 2016-03-08T17:47
The show opens December 27th, 1961, at the Cavern Club where Pete Best calls in sick, and the boys bring in Richard Starkey - Ringo Starr to the world - to sit in on drums, his first paid gig with ...
ListenEpisode 7: Meet The Beatles Part 1 from 2016-02-23T22:01
Arrival: we begin the show on February 7th, 1964, in the first-class cabin aboard Pan American Airlines Flight 101 from London to New York City. It’s a raucous, party atmosphere, but John Lennon, f...
ListenEpisode 6: Soul Sisters from 2016-01-27T05:53
We open in Manhattan, in the main room, the big studio at Columbia Records. It’s Fall of 1963. A big-time, high-stakes recording session for Aretha Franklin is about to get underway. Aretha is an a...
ListenEpisode 5: The Ballad of Bob and J.R. from 2015-12-30T01:45
A quick prologue: we stop by the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, where they opened up a very cool exhibit in March of 2015. Then we move on to Newport, Rhode Island, where Pete Seeger is a...
ListenEpisode 4: The Change of the Guard from 2015-12-09T00:34
The Sixties are about to begin and we’re feeling the change of the guard. We briefly recap the first Golden Age of Rock N Roll: 1956 to 1959. A lot happened, and fast. Too fast to last.We skid peri...
ListenEpisode 3: The Day the Music Died from 2015-11-18T00:17
We describe Rock N Roll as an “enfant terrible,” then an unruly toddler, then a hyperactive kid. When Buddy Holly breaks out in late 1957, we see Rock N Roll has stepped out into the world as a con...
ListenEpisode 2: Elvis and the Rise of Television from 2015-11-10T19:07
Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, looking at lots of different things from lots of different angles. We take that approach with Rock N Roll. We recap episode one, and open in ...
ListenEpisode 1: The Precursors from 2015-10-26T17:49
Welcome to Rock N Roll Archaeology! This is a reboot of Episode One: The Precursors, originally released October 15, 2015. We updated and improved it some, and re-released it on November 4, 2020. ...
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